Month: December 2021

(Public Domain Pictures) COGwriter Extreme weather has hit many parts of the world. And it is getting costlier. Cost of weather disasters surged in 2021 27 December 2021 The most expensive weather disaster in 2021 was Hurricane Ida, which hit the eastern US in late summer A tally provided by humanitarian organization Christian Aid put the cost […]

(AdvancingTime Blog) COGwriter Bruce Wilds posted the following: Inflation In 2021 Far Different From What We Had In 1979 The inflation of today is a starkly different creature than what we faced in 1979. The world is massively different and presenting us with a strain of inflation that will most likely be stronger and more […]

Black Swan (Calvin Teo) COGwriter Microsoft News posted the following: December has arrived and it’s time to forecast 2022. I’ll start the ball rolling by framing the most gloomy scenario: 2022 could mark the end of the world, via global war and nuclear exchanges. Most Americans will find that forecast surprising and offensive. We tend […]

{Public Domain Pictures) COGwriter Microsoft News posted the following from the Atlantic: Omicron Is Pushing America Into Soft Lockdown December 26, 2021 Brent Young, who runs a butcher shop and two restaurants in Brooklyn, … says “because the anxiety’s so high no one’s wanting to eat.” For most vaccinated people, Omicron will be mild. But […]

COGwriter Berlin wants EU to be ‘Fourth German Reich’, says Poland’s Kaczynski Poland’s national-populist leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski accused Germany of trying to turn the European Union into a federalist “Fourth German Reich” in an interview published Friday. There are countries that “are not enthusiastic about the prospect of building a German Fourth Reich on the […]